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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Pickups Script the Fly Pickup

Shabaz Khan
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Shabaz Khan
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Posted by Shabaz Khan
Shabaz Khan
Courses Plus Student 6,939 Points

instead of if(other.Compare.Tag ("Player")) cant we use other.Tag ("Player") ??

cant we just use other.Tag rather then other.CompareTag
what is the difference between comparetag and tag??

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Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
Jason Anello
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Hi Shabaz,

I'm not seeing a Tag method in the documentation.

There is a variable named tag:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component-tag.html

You could probably do something like

if (other.tag.Equals("Player")) {

and that seems to work when I try it.

But it's probably more straightforward to use CompareTag()